| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Refactoring postmaster's code to cleanup after child exit |
| Date: | 2024-09-10 17:33:36 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmobO38XspYqjZ9Bx3T18x5c8C65Dm=gYu9hVzX5Ftnrq2g@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 12:59 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> I still think that we'd be better off to just return an error to the client in
> postmaster, rather than deal with this dead-end children mess. That was
> perhaps justified at some point, but now it seems to add way more complexity
> than it's worth. And it's absurdly expensive to fork to return an error. Way
> more expensive than just having postmaster send an error and close the socket.
The tricky case is the one where the client write() -- or SSL_write() -- blocks.
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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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